ACG Membership

More than 12,000 GI professionals worldwide call themselves an ACG Member. Join the community of clinical gastroenterologists committed to providing quality in patient care. Members access a wide variety of resources and benefit from ACG's ongoing educational and legislative initiatives to ensure quality in care.

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ACG Resources

Clinical Guidelines

Authored by a talented group of GI experts, the College is devoted to the development of new ACG guidelines on gastrointestinal and liver diseases. Our guidelines reflect the current state-of-the-art scientific work and are based on the principles of evidence-based medicine.

Guidelines

Education and Meetings

Earn your CME from the convenience of your home or office by accessing ACG's web-based educational programs, or attend one of ACG's regional or national meetings and Annual Postgraduate Course, that provide an opportunity to connect with colleagues and discuss the challenges you face in practice and ways to overcome them.

Policies and Procedures for Educational Activities

Physician Resources

From The American Journal of Gastroenterology, the leading GI clinical journal, to quality initiatives, treatment resources and late-breaking news, ACG provides a wide-range of resources that keep you current on clinical updates and what is on the horizon that may impact your practice.

For Your Patients

Practice Management

From articles to educational programs, ACG provides you tools and techniques you can use in your practice that will help improve efficiency and increase profitability. Learn from experts at ACG's live and web-based educational programs, read what others are doing in their practice to solve problems they encounter and connect with colleagues online to discuss important issues and share ways to improve practice.

ACG National Affairs

From articles to educational programs, ACG provides you tools and techniques you can use in your practice that will help improve efficiency and increase profitability. Learn from experts at ACG's live and web-based educational programs, read what others are doing in their practice to solve problems they encounter and connect with colleagues online to discuss important issues and share ways to improve practice.

Awards

ACG Institute

The primary mission of the ACG Institute for Clinical Research & Education is to advance the field of clinical gastroenterology through education and research. Founded in 1994, the ACG Institute has evolved into a major source of funding for patient care oriented gastroenterology research, and an active and effective sponsor of educational programming for consumers and physicians alike.

Fellows In Training

This section is a one-stop-shop for GI Trainees and those interested in pursuing a career in GI. You will find information about ACG trainee events and meetings, GI fellowship programs across North America, the GI Match, ACG's Mentoring Program and many other educational materials uniquely tailored for GI Fellows.

Stay Informed

Competencies in Endoscopy

Quality Indicators for GI Endoscopic Procedures

The ASGE/ACG Task Force on Quality in Endoscopy has updated quality indicators common to all gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures and for the four major endoscopic procedures: colonoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD, also known as upper endoscopy), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS). These documents are published jointly in GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and The American Journal of Gastroenterology and will appear in print in January 2015.

The five titles published by the Task Force, under the banner “Quality Indicators for Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures,” include:

The ACG/ASGE Task Force on Quality in Endoscopy, led by co-chairs Jonathan Cohen, MD, FASGE and Irving M. Pike, MD, FACG, FASGE, updated these quality indicators which were originally published in 2006 and which serve as a reference for physicians trained in endoscopy who can use them to assess, measure and improve their performance.

The quality indicators help to ensure that patients receive an indicated procedure; that correct and clinically relevant diagnoses are made (or excluded); that therapy is properly performed and that all these are accomplished with minimum risk to the patient. For each endoscopic procedure, quality indicators were considered for three time periods: preprocedure, intraprocedure and postprocedure.

Additional ACG/ASGE Papers on Endoscopy

Are hospitals and health insurance plans exposed to potential litigation if they don’t establish guidelines for determining competency in providing endoscopic procedures? ACG in cooperation with ASGE, has published “Ensuring Competence in Endoscopy” which helps to answer this question. Along with the joint publication, a legal memorandum from a nationally-renowned litigation law firm, Williams & Connolly, is included. ACG members will receive a copy in the mail and ACG is also mailing a copy to all hospitals and health plans across the country. PDF’s of each may also be found by clicking on one of the links below.